Nicholas Sandmann's family goes up against the media after he was dragged through the mud

The parents of Nicholas Sandmann, the 16-year-old Covington Catholic high school student, hired a heavy-weight attorney who specializes in litigating against media organizations for libel and slander, which is exactly what the media did to this kid.

WCPO reported that the Sandmann family has hired L. Lin Wood, whom disgraced and scummy former journalist Dan Rather described as the "attorney for the damned." He also said that Wood is known for "aggressive libel and slander suits against media organizations."

The family made the announcement in a statement released by the Hemmer DeFrank Wessels law firm, according to The Enquirer.

The release explained that "...Todd McMurtry, the family’s legal counsel, conducted an extensive search to find a nationally-recognized attorney skilled in the fields of libel, defamation, and the First Amendment." [That's the Amendment liberals think only applies to them.]

"Mr. Wood brings an unrivaled record of success in the courtroom, having represented such clients as the family of JonBenet Ramsey, former Rep. Gary Condit and Richard Jewell in lawsuits against the media," McMurtry said in a statement. "Mr. Wood visited with the family today in northern Kentucky. He is committed to bringing justice to 16-year-old Nick Sandmann and his family. Further announcements should be expected in the next few days."

Sandmann was thrust into national spotlight over the weekend after far-left activists and left-wing journalists spread a selectively edited video clip of an interaction between him and Native American Nathan Phillips. The activists, known as the Black Hebrew Israelites, a designated hate group by the Southern Law Poverty Center, a leftist group themselves, were harassing the high schoolers in front of the Lincoln Memorial when Phillips came along beating on his drum in the face of Sandmann.

Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, [he did not necessarily come out and say it, but never corrected the media when they made the claim. He was in the USMC during the war but never went there and was a refrigeration mechanic.] He was also AWOL three times [Absent Without Official Leave, aka "over the hill"] and had been busted [demoted] to private. He also has a history in 2015 of lying about being harassed by white people who allegedly attacked his Native American heritage. The guy is such a phony, it wouldn't surprise me if he isn't even Native American--but I digress.

The Daily Wire reported:

The three-minute video was posted online by a group of Native American protesters who claimed they were harassed and intimidated by a group of Covington Catholic High School students waiting for their bus near the Lincoln Memorial. The video is heavily clipped at the beginning and end, and shows only an apparent "confrontation" between a protester named Nathan Phillips and a Make America Great Again-hat wearing teen. ...

Saturday night, a two-hour long, full video of the confrontation became widely available on social media, and that video shows a very different interaction than the one initially portrayed. The video, taken from the point of view of a second group of protesters who witnessed the interaction, shows that Phillips approached the teens — not the other way around, as Phillips claims — and that the teens were relatively peaceful during the incident, laughing and clapping along with Phillips' drumming, and occasionally asking questions like, "what is going on here?"

The Covington Catholic students were verbally attacked by a designated hate group that called them "Child molesting f**gots," "Dirty a*s crackers," "Future school shooters," and "Incest babies."

Rob Sanders, a prosecutor for Kenton County, Kentucky where Covington Catholic High is located, told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night that a criminal investigation against those who threatened the students is "already underway."

Full transcript of Ingraham's interview with Sanders provided [to Daily Wire] via Fox News:

INGRAHAM: Covington Catholic School has reopened but the violent threats against the students have not stopped. In fact, the Covington Diocese received a suspicious package just tonight. We share tweet after tweet with you from celebrities, liberal commentators calling for attacks and even the death of these teenagers. Tonight some hope that this hate speech will not go unpunished.

Joining me now exclusively for his first national television interview, is Rob Sanders. He's a prosecutor for Kenton County, Kentucky where Covington Catholic High is located. Rob, it's good to see you. What kind of charges could realistically be filed and against whom?

ROB SANDERS, KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY PROSECUTOR: Well, we have a number of different charges in Kentucky that might apply. The one that jumps out the fastest is terroristic threatening. Now there's three different degrees of terroristic threatening in Kentucky, two of them are felonies.

The most common one, I think that might apply in this situation is terroristic threatening second-degree, that's any time that someone threatens death or violence against a educational institution in Kentucky or any student in the educational institution in connection with the school function.

Now that is a Class D felony. It's one to five years in the state penitentiary. That could rise to five to ten years in a Class C felony if the person threatens that violence or death in connection to an educational institution in it the use of a device of mass destruction or weapon of mass destruction.

INGRAHAM: Yes. Well, you have - this is happening on Twitter though.

SANDERS: --that would double up the--

INGRAHAM: Mr. Sanders, this is happening on Twitter from different states.

SANDERS: Yes, ma'am.

INGRAHAM: --different locations, does that hinder the prosecution? I mean you don't really need an - I mean, you have to interview these people, they're in different states. You're going to have to get to them somehow.

SANDERS: Well, it makes it much more difficult. It makes it much more difficult, much more complicated, #1. There's a number of misdemeanors that could apply in a lot of these cases, but we can't reach across state lines and extradite for misdemeanors--

INGRAHAM: Right.

SANDERS: --which means, we would have to wait for the person to come back to Kentucky or make a stop in Kentucky before we could ever arrest them. But when it comes to the offenses that rise to the felony level, we can extradite.

Now it's not as easy as staying a Twitter handle. We can't reach out and just arrest someone who - half the time they're using a fake name, fake profile picture that sort of thing. We have to go through a process of issuing subpoenas, search warrants, getting--

INGRAHAM: Are you going to do this?

SANDERS: --information that goes with - it's already underway. I've had detectives in and out of my office all day today. We were starting with some comments, some threats that were made in state, because those are people that we don't even have to extradite. And we are moving on then to the ones that are out of state.

We've had the detective that works in my office has already been busy issuing Grand Jury Subpoenas and composing search warrants for detectives at other agencies.

INGRAHAM: Good.

SANDERS: --sending out, so we can get the information associated with the ownership of these accounts.

INGRAHAM: All right.

SANDERS: We get the IP addresses that are registered--

INGRAHAM: You got to get these people.

SANDERS: Then we find out.

INGRAHAM: I mean, it's only - you are only one office--

SANDERS: That's right, we find out who uses the internet, those IP addresses.

INGRAHAM: Yes, we get the IP addresses. We're going to follow-up with you later in the week to find out where you are on this. But--

SANDERS: Yes, ma'am.

INGRAHAM: --this has to happen. Because, until people--

SANDERS: Well, it's going to happen. Everybody's got to realize that these- -

INGRAHAM: --have to got jail. They have to go to jail. That's got to hurt. Otherwise someone is getting hurt and I fear - we're about to talk to Steve Scalise who felt it in a different way. Someone is going to get hurt or someone is going to get killed. Prosecutor, I really appreciate you joining us.

SANDERS: Yes, there is no doubt.

INGRAHAM: And we'll have you back. I know it's a longer segment. We've got a lot of people to talk to, so we appreciate it.

I hope that 2019 will be the year you follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.




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Shamed Dan Rather wants to spread the shame

Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather urged all his former fellow news anchors and lamestream media editors to destroy Donald Trump and his supporters. He probably does not mean anyone who actually supports Trump should be 'destroyed' in the literal sense, just shame them like CBS and he was shamed for journalistic malpractice. 

Rather reported in September 2004 on 60 Minutes Wednesday that a bunch of memos critical of Pres. George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service record had been discovered in the personal files of Bush's former commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. 

But when the documents went public on the Internet, something smelled fishy because of how the documents were proportionally printed and displayed with modern typographic conventions not yet available on military typewriters in the 1970s. The font used had exact characteristics of standard Microsoft Word. which wasn't around back then. 

Of course, this led to claims the memos were forgeries and the mainstream media got hold of them.

Rather and CBS lied, insisting the documents had been authenticated by experts, but CBS was contradicted by some of the very same experts they cited. It was later discovered that Lt. Col. Bill Burkett had lied to CBS as to how he obtained them.

By September 20th, CBS retracted the story and Rather said, "If I knew then what I know now, I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question."

And yadda, yadda, yadda.

The reason Rather didn't know then what he later learned was because he didn't bother to check his source. 

Ruining a conservative was too tempting and he couldn't resist jumping at the bait. 

The left has even made a movie trying to exonerate Rather and liberals probably will believe it. But Rather wouldn't admit the fraud a few years later on Larry King Live saying, "Nobody has proved that they were fraudulent, much less a forgery--The truth of this story stands up to this day."

What a phony and a liar. If there was no way for the documents to exist in those days with that font, that's called fact. But facts to liberals is like oil to water.

So this is who Dan Rather really is--and now he wants to shame conservatives who support Donald Trump.

Referring to Trump's comments defending the Second Amendment, Rather (who is a hunter) said, "This cannot be treated as just another outrageous moment in the campaign."

Rather was absolutely horrified by Trump, trying to explain his feelings: "By any objective analysis [which was sorely lacking in his scrutiny of the Killian documents] this is a new low and unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics," he said. He was obviously forgetting about Hillary Clinton's failure to protect Americans in Benghazi, her use of a private email server which compromised our country's security, deleting 30,000 emails, and the Clinton Foundation's acceptance of foreign money in the "pay to play" fiasco that she will likely get away with--not to mention Bill's use of the "Oral Office."

The shamed Rather challenged the media to hold Trump accountable for his words [as if they don't jump at the chance to do that with every breath he takes].

"We will see whether major newscasts explain how grave and unprecedented this is and whether the headlines in tomorrow's newspapers do it justice," he said. "We will soon know whether anyone who has publicly supported Trump explains how they can continue to do so."

And I challenge the major newscasts to do the same with Clinton, and while they're at it, with FBI Director James Comey.

Think about the self-righteous phony superiority that a Dan Rather has--to to try shaming Trump supporters.

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The Latest on Boston Marathon

It seems that most people who are not at the office today (me included), have been glued to their TV sets to follow this horrific story about the Boston Marathon bombing. Those of us from New York City, in spite of being rabid Yankee fans, feel the pain of those who are suffering and the incredible sadness for the families of those who died in the cowardly murders.

1:52 PM: Fox News has just reported that there is a suspect in the bombing who is about to be placed in custody. WFXT in Boston, a Fox affiliate, had marathon video along with video from Lord and Taylor's surveillance camera. 

1:56 PM: an arrest has been made, Fox confirms. Now the big question remains for the public: who is this guy? I have to admit that I hope the guy is a Muslim because if it's home grown terrorism, that would be horrible. If it's a Muslim on a jihad mission, that might wake up the liberal ostriches with their heads buried in their butts. But even if he isn't a Muslim, al Qaeda and most of the Islamic world is passing out candy in celebration of the fact that Americans were killed. 

The youngest victim: RIP

If they Mirandize this guy, we'll never get the intelligence we need to find out more about this bombing. They need to wait to do this, or not do it at all. I say give him a military trial, but water-board him first, just to relax him and get him to talk about the bombs and B-B's.

2:10 PM: CBS claims that no arrest was made. (Maybe Rather should be in Philadelphia.) I trust CBS with telling the truth as much as I trust Obama with my wallet. But perhaps I'll have to eat crow in a little while if it turns out they're correct. I hope not--it's probably just wishful thinking on their part (which is incredibly cruel of me to say so, I admit).

2:22 PM: The status of the crime is still unclear--it's beginning to look a lot like a royal cluster coitus. 

So we shall see what develops and whether I'll be eating crow. 

Stay hungry, my friends.

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